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Birthday

I had a birthday recently. In case you couldn’t figure out by the title I turned 33 years old.

I’ll pause for a sec to let you sing to me…

…aww, thanks you guys!

I’ve had many people tell me that 33 is a great year recently. They all reference Jesus when they tell me this, like 33 was a great year for him. Did any of these people see Passion of the Christ? I don’t know what version they saw, but to me 33 did not look like a fun year for JC. That’s why we love Jesus so much, because of all the horrible stuff he went through for us. I don’t want to have any year of my life be nearly as traumatic.

Although if I could have Jesus’ powers without having to go through all the torturing and crucifixion and stuff, I’d sign up for that.

That being said, I have always felt a connection to the number 33. It was the number my favorite basketball player, Patrick Ewing, wore. It is worn today by Matt Harvey, my favorite current NY Met. #33 was also worn by Jose Canseco, who was one of my favorite baseball players growing up before I was old enough to figure out what a piece of shit he is. Whenever I played sports or created characters in sports games I always wore #33. I still wear 33 on my Sunday morning softball team to this day.

So seeing how 33 is my number, I decided to look into this notion of 33 being the age to be. I started with a google search of “age 33”. I found all of these articles saying how 33 is the age where people are happiest, but that turned out to be bullshit since I found similar articles on the first page for searches of ages 34, 35, 36, 37, and 38.

Looking further into the number 33 I did find some pretty cool stuff though:

The thirty-third year of a person, it is the perfect age, that of the full development. It is at this age that Jesus-Christ was crucified and that Krishna, the god with the 16000 wives and the 180000 sons, died to repurchase the Karma of the humanity

David reigned 33 years to Jerusalem

The Christ in the Gospels accomplishes 33 miracles

Joseph was 33 when he too the Virgin Mary as his wife

The Zen books represent us the genius solar surrounded by 33 atmospheric gods

Total number of vertebrae of the spinal column of the human body, in which pass 33 pairs of nervous groups

Water boils at 33 degrees Celcius

According to the Muslim theologian Al-Ghazali the dwellers of Heaven will exist eternally in a state of being age 33

33 is not only a numerical representation of “the Star of David,” but also the numerical equivalent of AMEN: 1+13+5+14=33 (<—-COOL!!!)

Besides the importance of the number itself, here is some cool stuff people accomplished throughout history at age 33:

Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic alone

Michelangelo began work on the statue of David

Alexander the great conquered most of the known world (1 month shy of 33)

Thomas Jefferson wrote The Declaration of Independence

Thomas Edison took credit for inventing the light bulb

Vaudeville performer Walter Nilsson rode across the United States on an 8 1/2 foot unicycle (<—HOLY CRAP THAT’S AMAZING!!!)

It wasn’t all good for 33 though. There were some negatives:

Hitler rose to power in Germany in 1933. This was the same year that the Great Depression reached it’s height in America

33 is one of the symbols for the KKK (K = 11 x 3 = 33)

Many believe that the Antichrist (whoever he turns out to be) will rise at age 33

Recent studies have shown that most people stop liking new music at age 33 (this may not be so bad actually.

After taking in all of this information I was still on the fence about age 33. That is until I found one more amazing fact about age 33 that completely blew my mind:

UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE!!!

And so, with that I’m very excited about the year to come. Already to begin my 33rd year I have a chance to witness something magical that only occurs once in a millenium. If this event comes to pass I will be fully convinced of the power of the 33rd year.